Statistics for the 4.15 kernel
Statistics for the 4.15 kernel
Posted Jan 5, 2018 8:33 UTC (Fri) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050)In reply to: Statistics for the 4.15 kernel by lkundrak
Parent article: Statistics for the 4.15 kernel
Markus has a track record of submitting large numbers of "trivial", innocuous-looking patches, a lot of which have turned out to be untested and introducing subtle bugs.
Posted Jan 5, 2018 10:56 UTC (Fri)
by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
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Statistics for the 4.15 kernel
The patches aren't that bad, though some would indeed have introduced bugs. The problem is that 1) most of them are pointless; 2) he send a huge quantity of them; 3) it's very hard to communicate with him. But if you can withstand the SNR, there are some good (though still janitorial) changes.